Many good things: Isaiah Berlin's moral pluralism.

From: Queen's Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: J.A.W. Gunn | Copyright information

J.A.W. GUNN is Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University.

ISAIAH BERLIN: A LIFE. Michael Ignatieff. Toronto, London and New York: Viking, 1998. Pp. xi + 356.

THE last time that I saw Sir Isaiah Berlin was in the Bodleian library, probably in the winter of 1972-73. I thought then, "where does he get his material?" and concluded that he had found a better way than to wade through pamphlets and newspapers of the eighteenth century. ...

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